Two judges from Food Network’s “Chopped” recently visited the P Street Whole Foods Market to purchase food for the Capital Area Food Bank. Chefs Marc Murphy and Amanda Freitag, in partnership with Share Our Strength and Whole Foods, shopped and collected food to help raise awareness of childhood hunger in America. My colleague, Brian Banks, [...]
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Food Network Stars and Whole Foods Market Lend A Helping Hand During Holiday Season
By Shamia Holloway
December 7, 2011
Blog post submitted by Jennifer Saunders of Soapbox Marketing It started when two marketing professionals, Eddie Fam and Kelly Jan, were talking about how business networking was starting to feel more like a necessary evil than an invigorating exchange to promote mutual commerce. Why couldn’t time that was spent pursuing business connections lead to something [...]
Updated December 21, 2011 From a volunteer perspective: blog post written by Jay Landreth, Volunteer with the Capital Area Food Bank: These Caps fans were feeling loose because of the Thanksgiving Holiday. Thousands of pounds of food walked into the Verizon Center destined for distribution to individuals who were unemployed, under-employed, homeless, struggling to keep their homes [...]
The Capital Area Food Bank recently teamed up with The Virginia Federation of Food Banks to bring Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Virginia State Delegate Mark D. Sickles to CAFB partner agency ALIVE Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia. The Governor and Delegate Sickles volunteered packing food as a part of the state wide legislator volunteer day for [...]
The results are in for the Washington Architectural Foundation’s 2011 CANstruction! 2011 CANstuction Awards: Jurors’ Favorite: Leo A Daly Structural Ingenuity: HDR Best Meal: David M Schwarz Architects Best Use of Labels: AECOM Honorable Mention: Hartman-Cox Architects Honorable Mention: Wiencek + Associates, Architects + Planners People’s Choice: Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. (To view the winning CANstructions, click here.) [...]
Article written by: Marie Morse, Food For Kids Associate Donations and volunteers have always been a crucial part of the work completed at the Capital Area Food Bank. Luckily, one volunteer took her efforts to the next level by organizing a canned food drive in order to support the Food For Kids department! Deb Roeber [...]
Whole Foods Market recently held a film premiere of the documentary “Forks Over Knives” at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. Proceeds from the film were donated to the Capital Area Food Bank’s Farm Youth Initiative. Forks Over Knives is about how diet can alter the course of common diseases found in [...]
So you think the New York Broadway play “Sister Act” is hot? Well you haven’t seen anything! The Capital Area Food Bank’s Sister Hook-Up Program would be nominated for a Tony Award if this were Broadway. The Sister Hook-Up program is unique in that it “hooks-up” and acts as a facilitator between member partners that [...]
Mark your calendar! The 19th Annual National Association Of Letter Carriers’ Food Drive is this Saturday, May 14th. You can help nourish those struggling with hunger in three easy steps: Collect a bag full of non-perishable foods. Leave the bag at your mailbox on Saturday, May 14th – your local letter carrier will pick up the [...]
On Friday, March 18th Adam Lowy and Jason Taetsch from Move For Hunger visited the Capital Area Food Bank! Founded by the Lowy Family, Move For Hunger – a nonprofit organization that links local moving companies with food banks – encourages clients to donate unopened food during the moving process and offers to deliver their [...]